Survey on Content Based Image Retrieval Techniques

With the advancement and popularity of multimedia technologies and internet mediums, user cannot satisfy with the conventional methods of information retrieval. Because of this, the content based image retrieval is becoming a new and fast method of information retrieval. Content based image retrieval is the method of retrieving the data particularly images from a wide collection of databases. The retrieval is done by using features. Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a method to organize the wide variety of images by their visual features. In modern days with the development of social networking mediums, so many digital images are uploaded day by day. In order to access this huge data collection new techniques are very essential. These techniques will ease the data handling and the user can easily access the data. Content Based Image Retrieval is such a technique which uses features for searching a particular image from a database. It represents visual features like edges, spatial information, texture, shape. Here, in this paper the content based image retrieval techniques are discussed.